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We used to have a TV-permit system, now we have a YLE tax. The permit was better in that you could avoid it, tax is as sure as death.
The Orwellian thing is that the tax must be paid also by companies. Even by those private broadcasters that compete with YLE over viewers and listeners.
*YLE (yleisradio) literally means public radio, but they do everything from articles, TV programs to YouTube videos. Dwarfing the private companies. Is anyone surprised that is one of the most left leaning medias in the country?
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You know thats quite interesting.Ive always been amazed at how tightly regulated the media is,for exemple,in the baltic"democracies." But,Ive always blamed that on their origins in the soviet system.Finnish media make you think that the roots are much deeper.
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YLE is quite free, politicians are not allowed to meddle much. It was a scandal year or so ago when a politicians asked "do we really have to publicly fund programs like "pussy diaries" and "naked singles"?
It's seen as a problem by some that the funding must be agreed parliamentarily, so despite austerity on everything else, YLe didn't get cuts.
So it's more publicly funded than publicly controlled.
But as according to some recent poll, 75% of students studying press, are left leaning, it's no surprise so is yle. Especially as they get their funding from taxpayer.
Why we have such a thing is very much historical. Large country and small population, so radio wasn't profitable. Many institutions including defense forces saw the need for radio. With public funding it was possible to afford broadcasting.
TV was even more expensive. You only had one channel until 1965 when a second channel was added.
Commercial TV started in -57 but couldn't afford it's own channel. So it rented time from YLE until 1986 before opening it's own channel.
With so small language (5.5 million), public funding is a must to have any movies or tv series and lot of it is through YLE.
But why tax? Well, lefties were concerned that people have stopped watching TV and have moved to the internet.
Soviet union did have a huge effect on the politics while we didn't have a socialist system. Basically right wing parties were in opposition throughout the cold war and only way to get any right wing agenda through was by trying to get left and center to approve.
I wouldn't say we were fully democratic, when one guy sat as a president for 26 years and when naming government, the prime minister marched to Soviet embassy with list of names.
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